Skyrim:Food

Food items can be eaten to restore your health or stamina. Raw food provides only trivial benefits, but it can be cooked to create more nutritious items.

Food is cheaper and more widely available than potions, and creating cooked food does not involve the Alchemy skill. However, even cooked food typically provides rather weaker effects than potions do. Nonetheless, a small number of dishes provide quite long-lasting effects, while Elsweyr Fondue is actually more powerful than a number of magicka potions.

Alcoholic beverages like ale, mead, and wine typically provide an immediate boost to stamina but reduced stamina regeneration for a period of time.

Stamina regeneration food such as vegetable soup is rather useful for melee based characters; the stamina regeneration each second allows you to use power attacks continuously until the effect wears off.

Most food items can be sold to any innkeeper or food vendor, as well as to general goods merchants (exceptions are noted in the following tables). A limited number of food items are categorized as raw food, and these items can also be sold to apothecary merchants. In addition, innkeepers and food vendors will have a selection of food items available for purchase.

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This section includes all food items that can be used when cooking. Several of these items are also classified by merchants as being raw food, which means that they can be sold to apothecary merchants and innkeepers.

Raw meat can generally be obtained from the bodies of dead animals. In the case of small game (e.g., rabbits and pheasants), already-caught animals can also be found hanging in homes and inns, and can be harvested to obtain the meat. Similarly, salmon can also be found hanging from racks near rivers. Certain barrels are internally identified as meat barrels and will always contain raw meat, as well as salt piles.

In addition to the specific sources listed in the following table, most of the following fruits and vegetables are also commonly found in food containers, namely barrels, large sacks, sacks, and small sacks. The only items not randomly found in such containers are gourds and leeks.

These soups recipes are made at the standard cooking locations but are only available to be made when the Creation Club module Survival Mode is purchased and active. Their primary use is to counteract the cold, but they also act as hunger reducers.

Most of these items can be bought from innkeepers. They are also commonly found in most inns and houses, though they will usually be owned by the owner of the property. With the Hearthfire add-on and player-built kitchen, a few of these items can be made by the player.